Technical Education

The South Carolina facility has about 200 seventh through ninth graders participating, each choosing two of 10 possible programs to attend, including lessons about drones, robotics and automotive technology.

The editorial board of the Seattle Times is concerned about a gap between the number of technology professionals being trained in the state's institutions and the number of jobs the state's tech companies are creating.

Voters this week passed a referendum for a school on Danbury's west side that will contain six academies, including for emerging technologies, scientific innovation, information and cybersecurity.

Temporarily scrapping plans for makerspace labs at five elementary schools, the Ohio district is moving forward with a $6.7 million project to build three career tech labs for fields such as construction, HVAC and welding.

A company that runs computer programming bootcamps has partnered with the City University of Seattle to ensure its clients' admission into the university's computer science program, should they desire a formal degree.

The University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California Berkeley were recently selected by NASA to build a probe to record measurements for both neutral gases and plasma at different points around the Earth.

The state has created a website with information on programs such as internships and camps for girls and women interested in STEAM fields, as well as resources for parents and educators to promote those fields.

Dickinson Middle School in North Dakota will host its first-ever Coding Camp for Girls next week, in conjunction with the annual Governor's Summit on Innovative Education to share best practices among school leaders.

John Fry, president of Drexel University and winner of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia's William Penn Award, reflects on innovation districts, interest in computing and informatics and other developments.

The Central Valley technology company has opened a new downtown business hub, offering six-week pre-apprenticeship classes in websites, mobile websites and JavaScript that can lead to paid internships.

The college is expanding the presence of its TechWorks campus in downtown Waterloo, planning to work with small- and medium-sized companies that need help updating equipment and training workers.

With a $166K National Science Foundation grant, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering wants to reduce the data transfer process to less than 5 milliseconds in future 5G or beyond.

Students in grades 6-12 are invited to a one-week program at Mercer County Technical Education Center and Monroe County High School to learn about cyber safety, ethics and critical network security tools and skills.

The 15-week introductory high school course will feature practice labs, student projects and multimedia-driven lessons building upon the nonprofit’s computer programming catalog amid efforts to meet workforce demands.

Education Service District No. 112 is hosting in-person technical courses across 30 Southwest Washington school districts, where companies come into middle and high school classrooms to teach workplace skills.

Several state governors met in Boston Thursday to discuss the need for schools to focus on science, technology, engineering and math — particularly computer science — to fill jobs that will otherwise have to be exported.

The academy opened in 2019 with 150 students, one of only two of its kind among southwest Ohio schools. This school year's enrollment was 165 students, and next year's class will count 200 students.

The new Innovation Zone at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Pennsylvania will host scheduled programs and classes about the computer science, design and storytelling involved in making video games.